Selected Variables Related to Disaster Response and Recovery Management Abilities of Professional Nurse Hospital under the Ministry of Defense

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Phitchayakorn Bumrungkit
Gunyadar Prajusilapa

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The purposes of this descriptive research were to explore the disaster response and recovery management bilities, and to examine the relationships between division, training, disaster operation time, staff mpowerment of leader, teamwork, and disaster response and recovery management abilities of professional nurses, hospitals under the Ministry of defense. The populations were 268 professional nurses, hospitals nder the Ministry of defense. The research instruments were personal factor, staff empowerment of leader, teamwork, and disaster response and recovery management abilities questionnaires which were confirmed content validity by experts and were tested for content validity and reliability. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients was .96 of staff empowerment, .96 of teamwork and .96 of disaster response and recovery management bilities. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, chi-square test and earson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The major findings were as follow: 1. Disaster response and recovery management abilities of professional nurses hospitals under the Ministry of defense was the high level (  = 3.64, SD = 0.65 ) 2) There was significant relationship between training and disaster response and recovery management abilities of professional nurses, hospitals under the Ministry of defense at the .05 level (c2 = 9.821, C = .188) There was positively significant relationship between staff empowerment of leader, teamwork, and disaster response and recovery management abilities of professional nurses, hospitals under the Ministry of defense at the .05 level (r = .557 and .838 respectively). Personal factor consisting of division and disaster operation time was not significant related to the disaster response and recovery management abilities of professional nurse hospital under the Ministry of defense.

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